God is such a patient God who relates to us, such an impatient humanity. I want to share a couple of thoughts on that this morning. As you know, on Sundays we read from scripture. These readings are not readings that clergy get together with and pick out, “Let’s have these readings this Sunday…”
In Episcopal and Anglican churches all over the world this day is celebrated as Trinity Sunday; the feast of the Holy Trinity. But in about 100 churches in the United States today is the feast of knowing the results of the election of the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta…
Today we remember those who gave their lives for this country. In May of 1865 nearly 10,000 people, mostly freed slaves, gathered in Charleston, South Carolina to honor Union soldiers who fought for liberation…
We’re here today to do a particularly Anglican kind of thing. That is to confirm and receive people into this part of Christ’s body. The reception prayer is “We receive you into the fellowship of this communion.” And in either case, what we do is grounded in confirming our baptismal covenant…
I want to share a story with you of the abbot of a monastery, a Trappist monastery called the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The monk there, the abbot of the monastery was asked about the meaning and significance of the monastic life in the monastery…
I am holding up for you the two books that we turn to the most in this community of faith along the journey: The Holy Bible and The Book of Common Prayer. Each of these books has lots of language and imagery that in some ways are not very familiar to us…
A few years back I was working for a church as their youth director. Because the church was much smaller than St. Paul’s, my job was mainly to supervise the students on Sunday night and to provide pastoral care when it was needed…
We’ve heard the story of the women going to the tomb of Jesus. They were going there to perform a Jewish ritual. But when they went to the tomb, what they experienced was quite different from what they expected…
When I was about 17 years old, there was a huge blow up in my family. As a result, certain extended family members and my immediate family became disconnected. We never heard from them or called them again. That is, until about two years ago…
Tonight our Lenten journey is nearly over. The last leg of the journey began last Sunday as we reenacted Jesus’ triumphant procession into Jerusalem accompanied by cheering crowds. Today it ends with a different kind of procession…